10.0 / 10
(1 votes)
"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Montréal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots, and gum. With a sure hand he works methodically to fashion a craft unsurpassed in function or beauty of design. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native Peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is free of spoken commentary but text appears on the screen in Cree, French, and English." - Anthology Film Archives
Canada
Documentary
57 minutes
1971
Bernard Gosselin
ONF | NFB
1978
0.0
1978
10.0
1967
10.0
1968
10.0
1976
0.0
2000
6.0
2023
6.0
2023
0.0
2023
0.0
2023
0.0
2016
10.0
1968
0.0
2015
5.0
1999
6.0
2016
0.0
2013
6.0
2018
0.0
1989
0.0
2013
7.5
2016
0.0